Funding
Every significant funding round in humanoid robotics: who raised, how much, at what valuation and from which investors, plus IPOs and acquisitions.
Everything we learned about Figure from its public all-hands meeting
Nov 3, 2026Foundry Robotics raised $100 million to build autonomous factories, along with robots
Nov 2, 2026Washington targets robot imports, Agility goes public, $20 billion valuation, and home insurance for humanoids
Oct 30, 2026More Funding
Physical Intelligence wants a $20 billion valuation. Here's the bull and bear case.
Unitree's first post-IPO earnings: 70% revenue growth, R&D spend up 250%
The engineer who taught 1X's NEO to walk just raised $30 million to give robots a sense of touch
Samsung robots for surgery, UK's biggest seed round, Boston Dynamics employee revolt, and hello BlackBerry!
Today in Humanoid Daily ... the UK's biggest ever robotics seed round, Samsung brings robots into surgery, Boston Dynamics employee revolt as they prep for for 10,000 Atlas robots, Digit gets more jobs, we see more robots building robots, BlackBerry wants to power physical AI, an $89,000 humanoid strolls through New York, and the number of the day is 185.
Machenta raises $40 million betting simulation can replace real-world robot training data
Killer hacked robots, Optimus in production, NVIDIA's platform wins, micro-factories staffed by robots, and more!
Today in Humanoid Daily ... Tesla starts building Optimus (but how many), NVIDIA wants to own the robot platform, 1 word turns a robot violent, Unitree's CEO warns investors, tiny micro-factories powered by humanoids, a humanoid with personality, and the number of the day is 348!
Unitree's wild stock ride triggers warning from CEO
Dream Labs raised $90 million and bets that video prediction is the key to robot control
Here's the battery tech that gives Digit 5 a 10:1 work-to-charge ratio
Why Germany's humanoid billionaire is building robot gyms
Google one-shots humanoid training, Tesla gives robots skin, Faraday launches $2,490 humanoids, and more!
Today in Humanoid Daily ... Google one-shots robot training with Apptronik's Apollo humanoid robot, factory workers can now vibe-code robots, Galbot expands its 200 robot stores to Hong Kong, Agility goes public, Faraday launches $2,490 humanoids, Tesla develops touch-sensitive robot skin, we get a new humanoid designed to fight loneliness, and the number of the day is 10,000!
Linkerbot ships 10,000 robot hands, hits $3B valuation
Another robot company on public markets: Faraday Future sells itself to itself, sort of
Humanoid is a state of mind: Matter Venture Partners’ Haomiao Huang on robots worth building
SafeWorld raises $12M to make humanoid robots safe ... before they meet real people
Former Tesla Optimus chief Ashish Kumar launches new industrial robot startup
Mecka AI is making $100M a year sending humans to collect robot training data
New NVIDIA investment in Figure? And, Japan's $6B physical AI bet, Agility Robots shares unit economics, and much more!
Today in Humanoid Daily ... Japan bets $6 billion on physical AI, Amazon’s Alexa chief takes over Boston Dynamics, Korea runs massive humanoid logistics test, Agility holds its first-ever investor day, and Minerva says: don't kill workers, send Roger. Also, the number of the day is $1 billion from NVIDIA ... for Figure?
Here's a modular humanoid you can repair in 5 minutes on the factory floor
SiMa.ai wants to be your new humanoid robot brain, and it's targeting NVIDIA
SiMa.ai raised a $150 million Series C at a $1.45 billion valuation to challenge Nvidia's Jetson Thor as the brain inside humanoid robots. Its pitch is twice Thor's performance at 60 watts, a pin-compatible drop-in module and agentic software that ports CUDA code. Will any humanoid makers sign on?